Hidden Payments to University Researchers Draw New Fire

By Richard Monastersky

Congressional investigators say medical schools and federal agencies have not policed conflicts of interest

Wall Street bankers currently serve as the national poster children for greed, but they face a strong challenge from some university researchers who have apparently been taking millions of dollars in secret from the medical industry. Recent revelations about those undisclosed payments have universities and the National Institutes of Health scrambling to rein in biomedical